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New Ocean Racing Recommendations
On Monday evening, five members of Coast Guard Sector San Francisco met with representatives of the YRA and any local yacht club or other organization that runs ocean races. The subject matter: making ocean racing safer. Lots of people seem to have heard different variations on what was discussed. We were there, so here are…
Taking the Bulls by the Horns
The start of the 2009 Bullship was in very light breeze. A butterfly actually passed us. latitude/LaDonna© Latitude 38 Media, LLC It was about midmorning on Saturday when the theme from Rawhide started playing in our heads: “Movin, movin, movin; Though they’re disapprovin’; Keep them dogies movin’; Rawhide!" As the lyrics tumbled forth, whipcracks and…
Pre-Season Safety Check
John Thompson and CG Auxiliary officer Rick Saber check the expiration dates on John’s flare gun ammo. latitude/Andy©2009 Latitude 38 Media, LLC John Thompson’s Tanzer sloop may only be 22 feet long, but she’s fitted out with all the safety gear that would be found on a boat twice her size. We ran into John…
Moby Dick in Richardson Bay
The ‘ick meter’ was cranked up several notches last week when, on the same day the big wind storm rolled through, a dead gray whale made its smelly way around Richardson Bay. The Army Corps of Engineers wrangled the bloated beast and anchored it just outside the channel — off the Spinnaker Restaurant in Sausalito…
Some Like It Cold
All the snow on Misty suggests that it’s still a little early in the season to go sailing in Alaska. © 2009 Paul May "Greetings from 61ºN," writes Paul May of the Vancouver 32 pilothouse Accomplice. "Back in November you ran an article on the much-travelled Bob van Blaricom who sailed his Tiburon-based Aries 32…